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Africa North
Egypt Bedouin Kidnap Two U.S. Tourists
2012-07-14
[An Nahar] Bedouin men kidnapped two U.S. tourists and their guide in Egypt's lawless Sinai on Friday, police said, adding that they were demanding the release of a jugged
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
 primitive in exchange for the hostages.

The Bedouin captured the American man and woman in the middle of the peninsula, where they were in a car with their Egyptian guide, almost a month after rustics briefly kidnapped a tourist from Singapore.

The Bedouin were demanding the release of a jugged
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
 primitive, the officials said, as Bedouin have done in increasingly frequent tourist kidnappings over the past year.

Two American tourists kidnapped near the Red Sea resort of Dahab in May were released after less than 24 hours in captivity.

All of the previous hostages have been released unhurt.

Bedouins living in the Sinai, where most of Egypt's luxury resorts are concentrated, had long been marginalized under the regime of Hosni Mubarak
...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011...
, and the security situation there has been tense since his ouster in February last year.
Posted by:Fred

#4  "his father was on an annual mission to Israel"

So he went to a safe, Westernized nation and then deliberately went on to a violent, Christian-hating, 7th-century throwback. And took a woman with him.

Just because your God can work miracles, Rev, it's not guaranteed he will work them.

God helps those who help themselves. You should have helped yourself to more of Israel's hospitality.
Posted by: Barbara   2012-07-14 23:40  

#3  Woah...one of them's from my hometown:

The family of a Dorchester pastor is praying for his safe return from captivity in Egypt, after he and an Everett woman and their tour guide were kidnapped while traveling on a religious mission.

Michel Louis, 61, pastor of the Free Pentecostal Church of God, appears to be all right but has diabetes and may require medical attention before long, his son said.

“We’re all in good spirits because we know the God we serve is in control of the matter,” his son, Jean Louis, the church’s youth pastor, said.

He said his father was on an annual mission to Israel with a group of clergy. Jean Louis confirmed the identity of the female captive as Lisa Alphonse of Everett.
Posted by: tu3031   2012-07-14 21:48  

#2  Jimmy doesn't actually patronize the wet bar. He just likes to sneer at it.
Posted by: Pappy   2012-07-14 20:40  

#1  What is it, about every couple of months some dipsticks get into trouble for going into an area that is known to be crime ridden and/or anti-American. I wished they'd send Jimmy Carter out into the Sinai to get them back. You'd have to do it at gun point though since he won't go unless he stays at the equivalent of a 5 star hotel with a wet bar in the room.
Posted by: Vortigern Hupoluse1541   2012-07-14 17:04  

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